Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 72



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42. Paradise (5)

The soldiers gathered.

I have seen their equipment before when I met the Chinese.

They are armed with rifles equipped with laser sights and are also fully equipped with bulletproof equipment.

There were also various equipment including hand grenades.

The number is sixteen.

Only combatants are selected.

The workers didn’t count.

There is no one who is not a threat, but Kim Pil-sung is particularly dangerous.

When we spoke briefly, he said he had served in China until just before the war broke out.

What we were dealing with just before the war were not monsters, but fanatics.

It’s a story about hunting people.

Now the trained killing machines, including my comrades, are coming to kill me.

It was a terrible situation, but it actually made me feel at ease.

It feels like I’m dreaming.

Because I’ve imagined similar situations thousands of times and died in them, killed, and killed again.

I didn’t tell my neighbors about this.

I don’t want to get involved.

This is a fight I brought upon myself.

I don’t want to see anyone else die because of my foolishness.

Of course, I asked for support from Woo Min-hee, the person involved.

I was trying to contact them to tell them that I needed immediate support, as the Legionnaires were trying to find me and kill me.

However, there has been no communication with her since the helicopter crashed.

Jamming? Interference? I don’t know.

Maybe she’s not answering your calls.

It’s a possible story if her long-standing mental illness flares up.

Because that woman enjoys tragedy.

If there is none, they try to inhale sadness like a drug, even if it means making it themselves.

The essence of her illness is that she feels as good as she is sad.

Of course, despite all this badmouthing, support may still come.

But for now, I have to fend for myself.

“Groups of four. Keep a close watch and search each suspicious area. The only counterattack they can make is a surprise attack. If you don’t give them a surprise attack angle and corner them in a hole, it’s over. Even if they’re S-class hunters, they’re just humans. They don’t have the talent to deflect bullets like Awaken.”

Kim Pil-seong appeared to be an experienced commander.

“Don’t gather in one place. They might have high-powered weapons.”

A loose line of soldiers began to search every nook and cranny of my territory, each protecting the other.

Jeokbuk-

Footsteps sound right above my main bunker.

Are you trying to go up the hill?

“Don’t you know the exact location?”

A soldier shouted above my head.

“I heard it’s at the bottom of the hill. Look down there.”

I placed a large rock in front of the entrance to my main bunker.

To the point where even I couldn’t get in and out of the bunker entrance.

They didn’t just place rocks, they also dug and filled the gaps with dirt.

If you don’t have a good eye, it will be difficult to find.

The scenario I want is that they find the dummy bunker and go into it.

But they knew that my base was at the bottom of the hill, so they doggedly searched only the area around the main bunker.

“There it is! There’s something like a ventilation shaft here!”

Finally found it.

I can hear the sound of soldiers moving quickly.

“That’s right. It’s a ventilation shaft. I’ve never seen anything like it before.”

“Pour in the tear gas.”

The soldiers threw tear gas canisters.

No way.

Their trick is solved with the push of a button.

When you press the large red button on the ventilation control panel that says “smoke exhaust,”

Wheeeeeeeeeeing-

The propeller attached to the duct operates at full speed, spitting out the harmful air trying to enter my bunker back towards the enemy.

“Cough! Cough!”

“What the heck! What the heck?!”

The soldiers’ violent coughing must have been a reaction to that.

“Back off. Back off.”

The motion sensor blinked.

Many sensors are blinking at the same time, but there is one sensor that has not blinked since a while ago.

My main bunker faces southwest.

There are no enemies there.

Clank-

He headed towards the emergency exit, carrying a firearm and a recoilless rifle.

Behind the main gate, there is a secret passage terminal that leads to numerous bunkers.

There are 13 doors.

Twelve are dummy bunkers, and the remaining one leads to the garage.

I quietly opened the door with the number 5 written on it so as not to make a sound, and then followed the tunnel that I had personally dug with an excavator and bulldozer at a rapid pace.

There is another iron gate.

I didn’t know what was beyond, but I opened it without hesitation and aimed my gun.

There is nothing.

The sensor was not wrong.

I monitored the surroundings through the observation window of the bunker.

The enemy was loosely positioned on the ridge of the main bunker, facing the ventilation shaft through which smoke was pouring out.

“Put the grenade in.”

“The holes are small. They’re drilled so closely together that they look like showerheads.”

Unfortunately, Kim Pil-seong is in the blind spot.

He stood there, pressed against a tall pile of waste in front of the bunker.

It’s not a hunter’s habit.

It’s a soldier’s habit.

To me, that scene seemed like a profile of what kind of person the hunter Kim Pil-seong was.

“······Phew.”

I took a deep breath.

Should I aim for Kim Pil-seong, who is standing alone beyond the cover, or should I aim for the soldiers who are gathered together?

The former can only kill one person with certainty, while the latter can deal with up to five people at once.

One hunter? Five soldiers?

The worries didn’t last long.

After memorizing the enemy’s location, he appeared beyond the bunker and immediately fired his recoilless rifle.

The moment I emerged from the bunker, at least two soldiers spotted me and instinctively aimed their guns at me.

“excuse me!”

It’s late.

With a brief cry, a powerful aftershock blew behind me, sweeping away the dust and grass and spitting out black shells.

“Get down!”

An explosion struck them with a rending scream.

bang!

The blast struck the ground where they were standing on the side of the vent.

Flames engulfed the wandering soldiers, followed by dust and wind that covered them.

Thump- tut-thump-

As the rain of gravel fell, I threw down my recoilless rifle and fired into the cloud of dust.

Tata tata tata tang!

Just hit one.

It’s better if both of them are right.

If those three are right, I can die today without any regrets.

As soon as the magazine ran out, I threw down my gun and jumped back into the bunker.

thud-

The door is closed,

thud-

Another door closes,

thud-

The heavy iron door leading to the main bunker closed.

Again, things are back to square one.

Above, no human voice could be heard except for the groans that seemed to be being held back.

Everyone is probably crawling and trying to sort out the situation.

It was about a minute later that Kim Pil-seong’s voice rang out.

“Park Gyu.”

The K-walkie-talkie rang.

“You know there’s no turning back now, right?”

There was no answer.

There was no need to do it.

What I’m noticing is a new discovery: the southwest sensor, which wasn’t blinking earlier, is now blinking non-stop.

They headed towards my bunker.

Three people came in.

This is what I said after looking at the only video equipment installed inside the bunker.

A soldier pointed at a cheap cam.

Kuk-

With just a press of a button, their appearance was erased from the screen.

Kugu palace!

The earth shook and a bunker collapsed.

Dealt with three more.

If you killed five earlier, then there are eight?

It’s halfway there now.

There’s still half left.

Maybe there’s more left than that.

Because the records of the recoilless rifle could not be properly confirmed.

“Where is the entrance? Yes? Tell me the entrance. Several of my subordinates have been attacked just now.”

Kim Pil-seong’s urgent cries are heard through the wiretapping device.

Who are you talking to?

“The gap where the dead tree roots are exposed? Yes. I’ll take a look.”

I sighed.

This is Kim Da-ram.

Kim Da-ram is giving my information to the person who is trying to kill me.

I don’t know why, but it seems like Kim Da-ram treats me like a person he can just throw away.

“······.”

It’s not exactly a rare experience.

People around me are falling away one by one.

But there was one person I thought would stay on my side forever.

My junior and assistant, Kim Da-ram, is one of them.

Even though we weren’t married, our hands and feet were so good that we could easily overpower the world’s best old school hunters.

Besides, I gave a million won as a wedding gift to her.

So much so that her husband remembers me and calls me Million Won.

And yet, it looks like this······.

I tried hard to ignore my darkening heart and closed my eyes tightly.

Rustle- rustle-

The sound of rocks being cleared inside the main bunker can be heard.

They knew where I was.

“Park Gyu.”

Kim Pil-seong spoke from beyond the door.

“I’ve never been close with you, but you seem like a person without much popularity.”

“······.”

“Your junior told you where the bunker entrance was, even though he knew you would die.”

“What do you think of my junior? Don’t you think he’s cool?”

I answered his question with a laugh.

A hearty laughter was heard from the other side.

The laughter died down and Kim Pil-seong spoke again.

“Bring the welder.”

Clank-

“There is no need for that.”

He spoke to the bastard as he unlocked the lock.

“The door opened.”

He slowly stepped back and put on his gas mask.

As expected, two tear gas canisters landed in my area, belching white smoke.

He took off his gas mask slightly and coughed.

“Cough! Cough!”

Urgent footsteps are heard.

but.

thud!

“Ahhhhh!”

The stairs leading into my bunker are quite dangerous.

Because we intentionally placed steps to make it easy to miss, and then carefully primed it.

It may be dismissed as a primitive prank, but it is an effective trap.

Boom boom boom!

Two or more people fell.

White smoke engulfs the view, making it impossible to see anything, but it’s a scene I’ve imagined in my dreams thousands of times before.

Tata tang! Bang! Bang! Tata tang!

Catch a fish in a net with a bullet.

Then, as if in response, a sharp, convulsive gunshot rang out through my bunker.

Tata tata tata tang!

The bullets hit the wrong places, even hitting the back and ceiling.

It looks like the dead man’s finger pulled the trigger.

When the smoke cleared, two bodies were visible.

As expected, one of the ankles was bent so badly that it looked like it was almost broken.

“colon.”

The soldiers who had been unable to hear clearly began to hear voices.

“That guy in there. Doesn’t he look like a joke?”

I’m so tired.

That’s not all.

“The mutation dog was a guy who just looked at the face and cringed. Who the hell is that guy? He’s not Awaken, is he······?”

The soldiers are shaking.

Well, if more than half of the people die, even the most veteran of you can’t help but feel discouraged.

There was no answer to that question.

Perhaps they are communicating through hand signals.

Soon, Kim Pil-seong’s voice was heard.

“Professor.”

He put my call sign in his mouth as if savoring it.

“He was the best of us. But he wasn’t Awaken.”

Srrrrung-

The sound of a sword being drawn could be heard beyond the open door.

“I’m just an ordinary human being who is better trained than others, who controls his emotions well, and who fights well.”

Chaengkang!

The sound of a sword striking the wall signaled the dropping of a smoke bomb at the entrance to the bunker.

Pushshshsh–

The smoke grenade rotates and spews out white smoke.

What are you aiming for?

As I watched silently, I saw hands pulling out a corpse from beyond the hazy fog.

I didn’t bother to bother you.

I hate it when my bunker gets dirty.

In the end, it was a wise choice.

Daughter-

A grenade landed where the body was.

There are three numbers.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

After three exploded, three more came in.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

It’s pointless.

The main bunker entrance has extremely steep stairs.

It means that the angle at which you can throw a grenade at the entrance is limited.

In addition, a fairly slanted slope was created in front of the last step, and a straight grenade-proof hole was created inside by filling it with dirt and sand.

To be sure, we even installed a grenade net at the entrance in advance.

If you want to break through this barrier, you’ll need to bring at least some dynamite.

At the entrance where the silence was flowing, something sparkling slowly appeared from the square.

Is it a mirror?

bang!

He immediately shot and shattered the mirror.

“How are you alive?”

Kim Pil-seong’s voice was heard.

His voice sounded quite tired, unlike before.

“well.”

He answered calmly, aiming his gun.

Then Kim Pil-seong sighs and asks.

“You know we’ll win in the end, right?”

I didn’t answer, but I think it’s persuasive.

It’s being blocked well, but it’s only blocking.

Besides, this side is alone and that side is the military.

Equipment, troops, and even time and physiology can be on their side.

As expected, Kim Pil-seong did nothing after that.

It’s the scariest strategy.

Induction of deadlock.

It’s a time-honored strategy to wear down the defenders and make them fall to their knees.

Bush Luck

I relaxed by popping a glucose candy into my mouth.

All sorts of thoughts came to my mind, but I tried not to think of negative thoughts.

I opened my eyes wide and waited for the situation to change.

While waiting for that one chance that might come.

For some reason I felt sleepy.

A similar drowsiness to what I felt in China.

Perhaps it is because, having seen countless deaths, the act of sleeping is not much different from death.

Booooooooo–

After a while, the sound of a truck coming was heard.

The truck stopped and the sound of more than ten footsteps could be heard steeply.

Are you a support force?

As for me at the moment, there is nothing I can do other than guess.

“What about the work?”

Kim Pil-seong’s voice was heard.

“It’s almost done. All we have to do is load the warheads and we’ll be done.”

Are you a worker?

It looks like they even dragged the workers to the airport.

“Did the chairman get on?”

“yes.”

“As soon as the work is completed······.”

It was before Kim Pil-seong had even finished speaking.

Gunshots rang out from the runway.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of a pistol being fired.

This is it.

It’s the sound of a gunshot from the pistol I was holding.

Sold to Cheol-ju for 1kg of gold bars.

bang!

“Ahhhhh!”

A mournful scream echoed from the base.

The soldiers who had been waiting in front of me without making a sound stood up all at once.

They raced up the hill and looked toward the airport.

I also went towards the periscope to check the situation.

It’s Park Cheol-ju.

Park Cheol-ju was shooting and killing a worker.

Three people had already fallen and the last one was on his knees, begging for his life.

This is Park Cheol-ju’s son-in-law, Koo Seong-jun.

“······.”

As an outsider, I have no way of knowing what happened between the two, but the story of the son-in-law and father-in-law was shaping up to end in a tragic way.

bang!

An unforgiving bullet pierced Jun Gu’s forehead.

Park Cheol-ju, who had taken down the fourth person, boarded the plane.

Wheeeeeeeeing—

The plane’s engines roared with power.

“Stop it!”

Kim Pil-seong shouted.

“Stop it! Damn it!”

Booooooooooo–

The vehicle that had arrived in front of me headed back towards the runway.

But that sound was drowned out by another loud noise.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeek-

“?”

What is this sound?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeek—-

That’s right.

This loud noise seemed to rip through the air.

It’s the sound of a fighter jet.

It’s the sound of a jet fighter flying high in the sky.

“Who are you?! Which side are you on?”

The soldiers’ shrill cries were heard.

Then the radio, which had been silent for a long time, rang.

Personal identification number: REDMASK

This is Woo Min-hee.

“Senior, are you alive?”

She finally answered my call.